Hartford Needs Solutions

The Courant this week has some incendiary op-eds and articles on the problems of poverty and crime.

Now is the time to search for creative and real solutions that require changes — possibly political ones — to encourage business and job growth, to improve education and affirm social guidelines that help citizens take responsibility for their actions. Each person has to understand that it takes mutual obligations to make a civil society. Start with publishing ethical ideas from others who have tried to make positive change. Martin Luther King's “Letter From Birmingham Jail” says it all.

Yale ethicist Stephen L. Carter gives steps for integrity: discern what is right and wrong; act on your discernment; and finally say why your action has integrity. First, people have to know what integrity means for each of us and that is where we need the help of clergy, teachers, honest leaders and most important, parents.

Please stop with the headlines and articles that promote unrest with no solutions.